Wednesday, February 06, 2008

What a great line - "We are the ones we have been waiting for...". Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman could not stop gushing over it. It is poetic. Problem being, Barack did not attribute the author who wrote that poetic line.

Our own shadows disappear as the feet of thousandsby the tens of thousands pound the fallow landinto new dust thatrising like a marvelous pollen will befertileeven as the first woman whisperingimagination to the trees around her madefor righteous fruitfrom such deliberate defense of lifeas no other stillwill claim inferior to any other safetyin the world

The whispers too theyintimate to the inmost ear of every spiritnow aroused theycarousing in ferocious affirmationof all peaceable and loving amplitudesound a certainly unbounded heatfrom a baptismal smoke where yesthere will be fire

And the babies cease alarm as mothersraising armsand heart high as the stars so far unseennevertheless hurl into the universea moving forceirreversible as light yearstraveling to the open eye

And who will join this standing upand the ones who stood without sweet companywill sing and singback into the mountains andif necessaryeven under the sea:

"Public figures commonly use anonymous speech writers. If a speech uses copied material, however, it is the public figure who will be embarrassed. Delaware Senator Joe Biden was forced out of the 1988 US Presidential race (but remained in the US Senate) when it was discovered that parts of his campaign speeches were plagiarized from speeches by British Labour party leader Neil Kinnock ... Biden was forced out of the Presidential race after the Michael Dukakis campaign released a video showing Biden using one of Kinnock's speeches without properly attributing it. Biden called the charges "much ado about nothing;"[*] it was also revealed that Biden had used and properly cited the Kinnock speech on several other occasions, although he failed to do so on the one instance recorded by the Dukakis campaign.[*]"

This will be a good test of the Obama campaign. Time for damage control.

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